Yes their facial recognition is scary good and their editing tools are pretty good, but your data is not your own. Google mines the data in your pictures to market advertisements to you. Google Photos is light years ahead of iCloud photos, but ALWAYS ALWAYS understand that when you use a service for free, YOU are the product. Have an iPad and a MacMini or MacBook? BOOM the photos you take on your iPhone are instantly on all your other devices.įacial recognition and AI searches are all done locally so you don't have to worry about Apple mining your data. The advantage of iCloud photos is strongest when you use multiple Apple devices. Longtime iOS user here, as well as longtime Google photos user. Wish Apple had an "on this day" kinda thing like Google does but I imagine it's only a matter of time. Photos on iOS and macOS is much, much smoother than Google's offerings, I don't have to deal with a second photos app and I can just drag all my photos to an external drive for much easier second backup when needed. Now that it's all done though I couldn't be happier.
Pro tip: if you don't have too many photos use the web interface of Photos to download them in batches of 2-3k or so. Not a problem for photos with EXIF, but for thousands of videos and other files I had to manually extract it from the stupid json files Google generates. It was a major pain - using Google Takeout changes the creation date of the files to the date they were requested/zipped. I'd rather pay Apple than Google for storage, and I do now.
They used the "unlimited storage free forever" tactic for just long enough to kill any possible competition and once people were completely invested in the platform they pulled the rug.
I had been using Google Photos since it came out and yes, there are a couple of things it does better than Apple Photos but Google can sit on a cactus for all I care, I'm getting rid of every Google service I can and I was an Android user for 10 long years. I just finished moving 40k+ photos and videos from Google Photos to iCloud.
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